Indeed, he epitomozes the American conservative. Conservatism is a way of being these days, not a coherent ideology. Sorry to those old school "conservatives" who have a bit of logic and sense, but the movement has left you behind. You do not have the sufficient numbers to define what conservatism is, and you are certainly no longer representative of self-identifying conservatives in general.
This. But expect one of the main excuses for his loss to be "it was because he wasn't conservative enough". If that were the case then you have to wonder how he managed to win the nomination in the first place.
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